Re: Carport installed Reply #25 – April 18, 2020, 03:48:34 pm Quote from: Blueox25 - April 18, 2020, 01:44:41 pmIf the storage for the LD is visible from your house, the strobe light will be irritating to rats and to YOU at night.HaroldNever thought of that.Might be effective at getting rid of rats and annoying neighbors. 1 Likes
Re: Carport installed Reply #26 – April 18, 2020, 11:11:12 pm For what it is worth:1. Lazy Daze in the boat barn with wood light barriers.2. Rope lights woven under hood and down into engine compartment and valley between heads.3. Twilight and LED rope lights turn on.4. View at night. Under the closed hood, it is bright as an operating room. It is also quite bright under the Lazy Daze.Rope lights have been on every night, other than the nearly 60 days of trips in the Lazy Daze each year with no failures. Minimal current draw. We have had no rat activity in the barn since we adopted this system. We had a significant problem and damage to the Lazy daze prior. I still trap up to 5 a week on the surrounding property, so they are here, but elect to not go into the boat barn with the lights.Harold 3 Likes
Re: Carport installed Reply #27 – April 19, 2020, 09:55:28 am Quote from: Blueox25 - April 18, 2020, 11:11:12 pmFor what it is worth:1. Lazy Daze in the boat barn with wood light barriers.2. Rope lights woven under hood and down into engine compartment and valley between heads.3. Twilight and LED rope lights turn on.HaroldWood barrier just in the front? Wouldn't have thought that would make much difference. A few weeks ago I watched some youtube vids where they showed the rats running around the lights. Maybe they already new that to be there home. I will post the links. After finding the vids again, I reading the comments. Some say the lights needed to be on longer and they are meant for small enclosed areas, not out in the open. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOdt4G2uVAQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVN9JXUJXdY
Re: Carport installed Reply #28 – April 19, 2020, 10:47:55 am The wood barriers are on three sides. They aren't visible in the photos since it a frontal perspective. Otherwise the lights would illuminate the boat and the interior walls of the boat barn. They hug the LD on three sides, across the front and along the running boards to the main part of the coach.YMMVHarold 1 Likes
Re: Carport installed Reply #29 – April 19, 2020, 11:48:11 am To be more clear, the rope lights are about 15-20 feet long each. I have two connected together. They go across the front under the bumper, around the front tires to illuminate the base of the tires on both sides since I suspect this is how rats enter the engine compartment, behind the tires and under the coach and across to the rear of the generator. Then the rope goes forward and around the other front tire and up into the engine compartment.I tried 12v solar lights first, but they are too dim. The 120v rope lights are quite bright and fully illuminate the underside of the LD and the inside of the engine compartment.It takes me about 10-15 minutes to arrange everything when I put the LD to bed. This is insignificant compared to how long it has taken me to repair previous rodent damage.Harold 1 Likes
Re: Carport installed Reply #30 – April 22, 2020, 09:33:58 am What I don't understand is why the rats will go to the LD but apparently not your boat. I wonder why that is.glen
Re: Carport installed Reply #31 – April 22, 2020, 10:45:44 pm Glen, They likely can climb up onto the trailer, but the boat has slippery sides, high freeboard, and negative shear from the chine to the gunnels, so getting up the sides of the boar would be nearly impossible.Ants have no such problem, which we discover after someone leaves a little fishy tidbit in one of the bait tanks..Harold
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